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10 games by Obsidian Entertainment reviewed here.
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Widely regarded as the best-written game in the Fallout series, and just as widely known for crashing constantly — a reputation so baked into its identity that even its own fans write songs about the bugs in five-star reviews, fifteen years on.
9 / 10
Obsidian shrinks you to the size of an ant and lets that single premise reshape exploration, combat and crafting all at once. Nearly four years after 1.0, the backyard is still one of the smartest survival maps in the genre — even as Obsidian's attention has visibly moved on to the sequel.
8 / 10
The game that brought the isometric party RPG back from the dead, and spent a decade being judged against a memory of Baldur's Gate rather than on its own terms. Fewer than half its buyers finish Act I — but the ones who push through average eighty hours.
8 / 10
Obsidian trades the open world it once pitched for four dense, handcrafted regions of Eora, and the trade mostly pays off — sharp first-person combat and companions with real opinions, wrapped around a plague mystery that resolves faster than it deserves to.
7.5 / 10
Obsidian's hand-illustrated murder-mystery RPG set in 1500s Bavaria earns comparisons to Disco Elysium and praise from actual medievalists -- and a genuinely substantial minority of its own fans arguing the choices that define it matter far less than the game pretends.
7.5 / 10
Obsidian's pirate-flavoured CRPG sequel draws real praise for its writing and open-sea setting, but "combat" is the single most-discussed word in its negative reviews — and one detailed review sums up a whole pattern in the corpus: 100+ hours logged, and still never finished.
7 / 10
Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas team builds a corporate-satire space RPG that's sharp, funny and warmly reviewed on Steam years later — but its own top-voted reviews keep landing on the same word, "average," and the base game they're rating has since been pulled from sale.
7 / 10
Obsidian's "evil already won" isometric RPG opens with one of the most original premises in the genre — and then, according to a large share of its own fans, simply stops rather than ends, a truncation reviewers link directly to the sequel and expansions it never got.
7 / 10
A note-perfect Obsidian-made South Park RPG that survived a publisher bankruptcy mid-development to become Overwhelmingly Positive with over 60,000 reviews — and is now, over a decade later, plagued by a widely reported broken save system that appears to be a recent Ubisoft-side regression rather than a launch-era bug.
6.5 / 10
Obsidian's darker, more philosophically ambitious sequel to KOTOR, Very Positive across more than 22,000 reviews for writing many still call the best in the franchise — undercut on Steam by an extraordinarily specific, reproducible bug that locks player movement after nearly every combat encounter, reported consistently by reviewers from 2018 through 2026.
5.5 / 10
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